Consider, on Valentine's Day, what the world might be like if the "fairer sex" ran the whole planet...
...as portrayed in this Women's Lib-era story from the b/w magazine Savage Tales #1 (1971)!
(Was it really over a half-century ago?
Lord, I feel so old...)
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by John Romita, Sr, this tale had an unusual genesis, as detailed on the editorial page by editor Roy Thomas...
Women's liberation.
It's all around us, be we male or female.
marches, intellectual treatises, picketing, bra-burning, some four-letter forensics, and more burnings–not always of bras.
"Women are the equals of men every day, in every way!'
Men are beginning to believe it.
Women always knew it.
So what happens if maybe we come the full circle in, say the next hundred years or so?
What if women turn the rascals out–and we do mean out!
What would we have then?
A better world? Perhaps.
A gentler world? Could be.
A different world? Believe it.
Stan Lee got to wondering-and, by and by, he set imaginative artist Johnny Romita to wondering along with him.
The result is, perhaps, something just a wee bit new under the sun.
Not quite sword-and-sorcery–certainly not science-fiction–and not exactly a political polemic.
Kate Millett zaps both Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless–then takes over Mongo for good measure! The hand that rocks the cradle really rules the world!
A Valentine's Day look at a possible future World of Wonder...as seen from the not-so distant past.
BTW: Almost every RetroBlog has a Valentine's Day Post!
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Wolff Will Return Next Wednesday!
